Music too valuable to be cut by schools

Thursday

Jan 2, 2014 at 12:01 AMJan 2, 2014 at 11:42 AM

Since the failure of our recent Columbus City Schools levy, I have heard rumblings within our district of music classes "being one of the first things to go." That would be a sad scenario for the lives of our children, and for the life of our city school district. There would be no joy in Mudville.

Since the failure of our recent Columbus City Schools levy, I have heard rumblings within our district of music classes “being one of the first things to go.” That would be a sad scenario for the lives of our children, and for the life of our city school district. There would be no joy in Mudville.

Want proof of what the arts provide in our lives? Check out Tuesday’s Dispatch article “Marching forward,” about one of our Northland High School students, Jillian Deas, who recently lost her mother to cancer.

In the photograph on the cover of the Metro section, she holds a key to one of life's sustaining pastimes: music. That saxophone she is holding is helping her through this very rough patch in her life journey.

Music is helping her find calm, purpose, joy and reason to move forward, even though she is left alone at 18 and still in school. Get rid of music in our schools? I dare you.